Sunday, December 22, 2013

Happy Holidays!

One of Doug's first freelance jobs was creating textbook covers and illustrations for W.J. Gage, Ltd., a publisher that would later become a steady client. He also produced illustrations for other Canadian publishers and illustrated features for several magazines, including Toronto Star Weekly, Chatelaine and Toronto Life.

Later, he expanded his work to include single-panel hard news cartoons, which first appeared in the Toronto Star, Canada's largest newspaper. Doug Sneyd was also syndicated across North America by the Toronto Star Syndicate.

We hope you enjoy the humor of this holiday political cartoon!

In the years since Doug's first cartoon (September 1964) was published in Playboy, he's submitted thousands of cartoon roughs to the magazine. Of course, not all can be selected for final art and ultimate publication; however, we hope you'll enjoy the humor in these unpublished holiday gags.

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Bio

Doug has been a cartoonist for Playboy magazine since 1964.
For nearly 20 years, starting in the mid-60's, his "Doug Sneyd" and "Scoops" news cartoons appeared daily in newspapers across North America. Sneyd's talent has also led him into cinema: in 1993, he wrote, produced and directed "Black-eyed Susan," an educational movie-drama about spousal abuse, for the Ontario government. He was a founding member of the Canadian Society of Book Illustrators and has been a member of the National Cartoonists' Society and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Thirty of his full-page color Playboy cartoons are among the 235 Sneyd works included in the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa.
Sneyd was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, but spent much of his professional career in Toronto. In 1969 he moved his family north to Orillia made famous as the mythical "Mariposa" by humorist Stephen Leacock. He works on the third floor of his home-studio overlooking beautiful Lake Couchiching and spends his winters on the Gulf Coast in Orange Beach, Alabama.